WQAM Sold To CBS Radio

     Sports Radio 560 WQAM-AM has been acquired by CBS Radio from Beasley Broadcasting. It is expected to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission by the end of the year.
     Both organizations have agreed to exchange 19 radio stations between them as CBS Radio will pick up all Beasley Broadcasting entities in Miami which includes WQAM, WPOW-FM and WKIS-FM. Beasley will still have a footprint in South Florida as they keep their radio stations in Boca Raton and Fort Myers.
     Beasley Broadcasting will get the entire CBS Radio clusters in Tampa Bay and Charlotte. They add sports stations WHFS-FM and WHFS-AM in Tampa Bay along with WFNZ-AM and WBCN-AM in Charlotte. In addition, they acquired WIP-AM in Philadelphia which is the second longest running sports radio station in this country behind WFAN-AM in New York City.
     WQAM has been owned by two organizations since the 1980s. Sunshine Wireless Company controlled the business when WQAM flipped to a sports format on April 5, 1993. They sold the radio station to Beasley Broadcasting in 1996. CBS Radio had a connection with WQAM when CBS Sports Radio Network was picked up by the station in January 2013. Former WQAM talent Chris Moore, Scott Ferrall and Damon Amendolara work as sports hosts at that network.